Derrick Odom, 45, of Jersey City, confessed to robbing an "elderly woman" after he was shown a videotape of the crime, police sayJersey City Police Department

After confronted with surveillance camera images of an attempted robbery on Kensington Avenue, a 45-year-old Jersey City man confessed he was the one who carried out the crime, according to police reports said.

The man added that he "felt bad for robbing the elderly lady," police report said. The victim is 68.

Derrick Odom, of Delaware Avenue, was charged on March 21 with burglary and robbery in connection to the March 15 robbery that occurred around 3:15 p.m. inside the lobby of a Kensington Avenue apartment building near West Side Avenue, police reports said.

After viewing the video footage, police received information that Odom was a possible suspect, reports said.

On March 21, Odom was arrested at his Delaware Avenue residence on an open warrant, reports said.

In the meantime, Odom's girlfriend, signed a consent order to have the apartment searched, police said.

Inside the apartment, officers recovered a gray-hooded sweat jacket that matched the one in the surveillance video, reports said.

When cops interviewed Odom at the West District, he initially said he had no knowledge of the Kensington Avenue robbery, reports said.

Odom was then shown two photographs from the surveillance camera images, and he stated that he was on West Side Avenue because he watches a fruit stand there, but insisted he was not on Kensington Avenue, reports said.

Then when he was shown photographs from inside the lobby, Odom said he was inside the lobby looking for a man when a woman grabbed his arm, reports said.

When he was finally shown the video of the robbery, Odom confessed, reports said.
Odom told cops he was surprised when the victim fought back, reports said.